Bellanca 8GCBC
N88287 is a Bellanca 8GCBC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Meyerkorth Aviation LLC, an LLC in Rock Port, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 19, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bellanca
- Model
- 8GCBC · all 8GCBCs and related versions
- Serial number
- 103-74
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- AC28D3 (octal 53024323)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 24, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 19, 1974
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00421931
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Meyerkorth Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 24544 D Ave
Rock Port, MO 64482-9400
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N88287, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Meyerkorth Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 24, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 19, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 103-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88287 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 15905, cancelled June 30, 1949). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N88287: Accident on August 22, 2018 at Elberta, AL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Champion 8GCBC · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to use carburetor heat during a low-power setting approach in conditions conducive to carburetor icing, which resulted in a partial loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA503 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data